Supertypes

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Name from Party string
The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product.
Identifiers from Party concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Identity documents from Party concept:IdentityDocument
Identity documents held by this party, such as passports, national identity cards, civil registration certificates, and program-issued beneficiary cards.
Given name string The given (first) name of the person.
Family name string The family (last) name or surname of the person.
Given name at birth string The given name of the person at the time of birth, before any legal name change.
Family name at birth string
The family name of the person at the time of birth, before any change due to marriage or other legal event.
Preferred name string
The name a person is commonly known by, when it differs from their legal name. Covers chosen names, professional names, and naming conventions where given name plus family name is insufficient.
Patronymic name string
A name derived from the given name of the person's father or a paternal ancestor, used in naming conventions where patronymics are a distinct component of a person's full name.
Matronymic name string A name derived from the given name of the person's mother.
Demographics
Date of birth date The date on which the person was born.
Date of death date The date on which the person died.
Country of birth string (country) The country where the person was born, expressed as an ISO 3166-1 code.
Sex string (sex)
The biological sex of a person as recorded in an official register or identity document.
Gender string (gender-type)
The gender of the person as recorded in a social protection registry or identity document.
Nationality string (country)
The country of citizenship or nationality, expressed as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code where possible.
Marital status string (marital-status) The marital or civil status of a person as recorded in an administrative system.
Number of spouses integer
The number of current spouses the person has. Captures polygamous or polyandrous union type separately from marital status, following the UN census framework and DHS approach.
Religion string
The religion, religious denomination, or sect of the person, as self-identified. No international classification exists; countries define their own value sets.
Ethnic group string
The ethnic or cultural group of the person, as self-identified. The UNSD recommends nationally defined categories based on self-identification; no international classification exists.
Pregnancy status string (pregnancy-status) The current pregnancy status of the person.
Displacement status string (displacement-status)
The legal, administrative, or protection status of the person with respect to displacement and migration.
Functioning status string (functional-difficulty-severity)
A coarse current-state summary of the person's functioning difficulty, used by operational systems for targeting and eligibility queries. This is NOT a Washington Group or Child Functioning Module classification of the person: WG and CFM items are measured at the point of administration through a FunctioningProfile, and deriving a disability identifier requires applying a documented cutoff rule. Populate functioning_status from a FunctioningProfile only by citing the cutoff rule alongside; otherwise treat it as a self-declared or enumerator-judged summary.
Nutrition status string (acute-malnutrition-severity)
A coarse current-state summary of the person's acute malnutrition status, used by operational systems for targeting and referral queries. This is NOT a z-score classification on a specific measurement: band classifications depend on a growth reference, an age at measurement, and oedema status captured on a dedicated anthropometric profile published in a sibling schema (see ADR-011). Populate nutrition_status from an anthropometric profile only by citing the cutoff rule alongside.
Education
Education level string (education-level) The highest level of formal education completed by a person.
Literacy string (literacy)
Whether the person can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on everyday life.
Employment
Occupation string (occupation)
The person's primary occupation, classified according to the ISCO-08 sub-major groups.
Employment status string (employment-status)
The labour force participation status of the person: whether they are employed, unemployed, or outside the labour force.
Status in employment string (status-in-employment)
The type of employment relationship: whether the person is an employee, employer, own-account worker, contributing family worker, or cooperative member.
Industry string
The branch of economic activity in which the person works, classified according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC Rev.4). Too large to enumerate; countries use national adaptations.
Contact
Preferred language string (language) The preferred language of communication for a person, using ISO 639-3 codes.
Phone number string A contact phone number for the person, including country code.
Email address string An email address through which the person can be contacted.
Domicile concept:Address
The place that the person treats as their permanent home, which may differ from the address of their current household.
Other
Group memberships concept:GroupMembership
Group memberships held by this person, linking them to households, families, or other groups.
Biometric samples concept:BiometricSample
Biometric samples associated with this person, linking to fingerprint, iris, face, and other biometric records.

Evidence

Present in all 6 mapped delivery systems.

Universal across all 6 mapped systems. The most consistently represented concept in social protection delivery systems. All systems maintain a person-level record as the primary unit of identity. Detailed point-in-time functioning observations live on FunctioningProfile records; anthropometric observations live on dedicated profile types in a sibling schema (see ADR-011). Person keeps only a coarse current-state summary (functioning_status, nutrition_status) for targeting and reporting workflows. Practitioner review confirmed this hybrid matches operational systems such as UNHCR proGres Specific Needs, Brazil Cadastro Unico, and Philippines Listahanan.

Standard Equivalent Match
Core Person Person exact
DCI Core Person close
DCI Person carries only basic demographics (name, sex, birth/death dates, contact); attributes like marital status, education, and occupation live on DCI Member instead

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